Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] from [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 These next few pages are the reactions of one who went to the Centre , came away evangelical and kept saying to himself , ‘ All shipshape and Bristol fashion ’ , only to fall from the crest into the deepest trough , but thankfully to climb up again to a sensible plateau and finally discover that he had been fortified in more ways than he had expected .
2 Gwendolen 's voice was shrill enough to penetrate from the end of the table , quite putting the Prince off his lobster .
3 It is usual to use boards large enough to reach from the floor to the ceiling as the fewer joints you have the smoother the wall finish will be .
4 One has only to return from a trip to the Continent , for example , to see what a shabby and second-rate country Britain has become .
5 I chose this frame especially for its plain qualities , so as not to detract from the shape of the design , but there is a small gold line on the inside of the frame to highlight the picture .
6 ‘ The obligation not to profit from a position of trust , or , as it is sometimes relevant to put it , not to allow a conflict to arise between duty and interest , is one of strictness .
7 In subsequent speeches the same day , Hitler exhorted the Party and nation to maintain discipline , and not to depart from the path of legality in the matter .
8 The decision of Diro ( the leader of the PAP , one of the most important components in the government coalition ) not to resign from the Cabinet in the face of such charges was supported by Namaliu .
9 Sabine did her best not to flinch from the contempt in madame 's voice as well as the implications of what she was saying .
10 Her objective is to keep him fit between shows , which in the Yorkshire Dales is not a problem ; the horses at Heyside Farm have to climb a substantial hill just to get from the stableyard to the road .
11 Land agent Robin Barbour , of Bridport , had been told by his family — wife Lavinia , son Henry and daughter Alexandra — not to return from the auction without the trip !
12 It was her first solo foreign trip representing the royal family and she returned home to praise from the public for her dignified manner at the highly charged and at times mawkish funeral service .
13 Not everyone gets better at weekends either — sometimes it can take a week or more to recover from the effects of chemicals at work .
14 A CHILDLESS woman was sacked from her job at a private hospital after she took time off to recover from the loss of surrogate twins , it was said .
15 ‘ The dangerous dreamed melon of the sage ’ which turned out to come from the dream of Descartes .
16 Palestinians with relatives still inside Israel could pay two-week visits — many , like Damiani 's wife , have gone wistfully to look from a distance at the homes they once bought and lived in — and the same Israeli spokesman who referred to the Palestinian Arabs as ‘ a community of refugees ’ said that he had himself assisted 40,000 Palestinians to rejoin their families and become Israeli citizens .
17 I came here to escape from the problems of my life in London and , without really meaning to , I came as far east as I could get . ’
18 of the world 's largest media group , Time Warner , died on 20th December at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer which had forced him increasingly to withdraw from the business over the past year .
19 This is my cue for showing you how to go from a list to a database and this is done using the /Data , Query , Input command .
20 Constables Colin Abbott and Granville Sellars spotted the 23-year-old Northampton man about to leap from a parapet at Leeds , West Yorkshire .
21 the external design is nevertheless made everywhere to result from the necessities of the interior : the positions of the windows are decided not so much with regard to external effect , as with reference to the rooms they light ; and even the heights of stories will be found to vary in parts to suit internal convenience .
22 Brazil had only five cases of infection but the real fear was that cholera was about to spread from the Peruvian into the Brazilian Amazonian river system .
23 Theo was about to travel from The Hague to Etten , en route for a new post in Paris , and Vincent pressed him to ‘ leave the train ’ on the second leg of his journey and stay with him for a day or two .
24 This is , I have to admit , one murky compartment of the female psyche which has yet to benefit from the oven-scourer of Reason .
25 I was certainly not ill , although I had yet to recover from the effects of the operation and was far weaker than I had been BC , but I was well .
26 Well they might be , because they have most to gain from the creation of a single European currency and political union .
27 I arrived there during the last day of it , and heard Dr. Bernardo pleading eloquently on behalf of the children he labours so unweariedly to rescue from the streets of our great cities , and also saw a gathering of the colporteurs gathered from the north and west , to get a word of encouragement in their laborious work of carrying pure literature into the homes of those who in numbers of instances live beyond the reach of the minister and the bookseller .
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